Top 10 tips for excellent instructional design

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These days, not every e-learning course is designed by an instructional designer. This beginners' guide offers some basic tips to help training managers, subject matter experts, IT professionals and other non-instructional designers create e-learning that is engaging, relevant and effective. These are my slides from a webinar I presented for the Institute of IT Training - they do lose something without the narrative but still provide some useful tips.

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Make your next e-learning

course engaging,

relevant and effective

How can I do it myself?

What makes e-learning excellent?

What’s this got to do with me?

How can I do it myself?

What makes e-learning excellent?

What’s this got to do with me?

How are you creating e-learning?

We all want more for less

This is good news for e-learning

62% use e-learning more in 2010 than in 2009

31% of businesses have increased their use of learning technologies

Especially DIY rapid development

Over the past year, 31% of businesses

have reduced external suppliers and moved to in-house provision

TimeCo

st Quality

The unattainable triangle

Low cost + little time= low quality

Only 12% think it is the most effective method

85% of businesses are using e-learning

Which is most important?

The cost is not in

butdevelopment

failed training

The tool is as good as the person using it

The tool is as good as the person using it

How can I do it myself?

What makes e-learning excellent?

What’s this got to do with me?

What’s this got to do with me?

How can I do it myself?

What makes e-learning excellent?

It hinges on instructional design

It hinges on instructional design

Everyone can learn the basics

Great e-learning in three words

Effective

Engaging Relevant

What’s this got to do with me?

How can I do it myself?

What makes e-learning excellent?

What’s this got to do with me?

What makes e-learning excellent?

How can I do it myself?

Set testable, behavioural

learning outcomes

1.

Put yourself in the learners’

shoes

2.

Emulate the best in

classroom training

3.

Remember, content is king4.

Be tough but fair with

questions

5.

Include scenarios for a

hands-on experience

6.

Use questions to drive the

learning

7.

Make it easy for your learners8.

Speak the learners’ language

9.

Get a second opinion

10.

Get a second opinion

Set testable, behavioural

learning outcomes

Put yourself in the learners’ shoes

Emulate the best in classroom

training

Remember, content is king

Be tough but fair with questions

Include scenarios for a hands-on

experience

Use questions to drive the learning

Make it easy for your learners

Speak the learners’ language

Top 10 tips for excellentinstructional design

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

What’s this got to do with me?

What makes e-learning excellent?

How can I do it myself?

How can I do it myself?

What makes e-learning excellent?

What’s this got to do with me?

Make your next e-learning

course engaging,

relevant and effective

What have you got from today?

ReferencesFrom me• Engaging, relevant and effective e-learning: http://bit.ly/csKlse • The secret of good design: http://bit.ly/bxL1wS • Classroom tips for engaging e-learning: http://bit.ly/9cx4bx • 15 tips for energising your e-learning: http://bit.ly/9G1GMM • Banishing the business speak: http://bit.ly/c9IYWX • Quality worth waiting for: http://bit.ly/cc6qrb

Instructional design• Action mapping™ (Cathy Moore): http://bit.ly/6DOV • ‘Dump the drone’ (Cathy Moore): http://bit.ly/kF0v • Question-writing mistakes (Cathy Moore): http://bit.ly/cHftw • Bringing the learner into the design (Kineo): http://bit.ly/bKchpv • ‘Don’t be tone deaf’ (Kineo): http://slidesha.re/aa8iFi • Tips for effective questions (Saffron): http://bit.ly/9dDWcZ

Learning trends• Towards Maturity 2010 benchmark report of preliminary findings:

http://bit.ly/ac0jyZ • CIPD learning and talent development survey 2010

(reviewed by Towards Maturity): http://bit.ly/brjQx0

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